Abstract
Dr. V’cenza Cirefice (North of Ireland) and Dr. Emma B. Mincks (US Southwest and Great Plains) have organized and researched as part of the transnational solidarity collective Making Relatives and have shared findings from organizing on the ground as researchers in previous works. Making Relatives is a collective of Water Protectors from Ireland and Turtle Island who have been collaborating for over six years to build a decolonial solidarity between frontline communities resisting extractivism (in the form of pipelines, mining, fracking and more). Building off their existing collaborative work on counter-mapping kinship networks with Making Relatives Collective, Cirefice’s work focuses on extractivist resistance through “Commoning,” and Mincks’ materialist approaches to long nineteenth-century archival research. The researchers aim to bridge continents, time periods, and other boundaries and express commitment to collaboration and sustainable kinship-building. Through contemporary eco-feminist approaches paired with nineteenth-century archival analysis, the authors outline specific ways in which global solidarity and resistance networks have and will continue to allow survival during times of ongoing global corporatism and environmental destruction.
Presenters
Emma MincksFaculty, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of New Mexico, New Mexico, United States
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Climate, Land, Indigenous, Commons, Archives, Long-nineteenth century, Praxis, Contemporary, Transnational
